The Unsurpassable Significance of the Child ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Unsurpassable Significance of the Child ~ The Imaginative Conservative

What is needed in understanding childhood is a profound reflection on the nature of man, one that begins with the notion that being is a gift, and so one able to interpret the special qualities of the child—wonder, dependence, receptivity, naive assent, and so forth—as genuinely positive, even if they do not come as easily to adults. Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood, 2nd ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 1994). Gareth B. Matthews, The Ph…